Roxanne Perez’s nickname, “The Prodigy,” was not merely plucked from a wrestling gimmick seize bag; one can see her achievements to date and know that it matches. She gained her first “NXT” Girls’s Championship earlier than turning the authorized consuming age, and earlier than that, she claimed Ring of Honor’s high prize as a youngster. However regardless of all her early success, Perez revealed to Stephanie Chase on YouTube that she handled self-doubt upon coming to the WWE for the primary time.
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“I feel after I first obtained to the WWE, I did not actually know precisely who I used to be,” Perez admitted. “I used to be nonetheless so nervous. I used to be simply starstruck. I lastly had my dream job, [but] I felt like simply form of nonetheless doubting myself, questioning…am I actually capable of maintain this championship at 20 years previous? Am I dwelling as much as ‘The Prodigy’ identify? And I feel I needed to simply throw all these doubts away, and actually make individuals cease underestimating me.”
After debuting as a babyface in “NXT,” Perez turned heel in March, adopting a extra cocksure perspective and disavowing fan help.
“After I lastly made the swap, and was similar to, you recognize what? I’m ‘The Prodigy.’ I’m among the best girls’s wrestlers on this planet proper now,” Perez mentioned. “So I feel it is lastly time for me to begin understanding who am I and displaying everyone who I’m… Each single day I am dwelling my dream, and I really feel it simply goes to indicate all of the onerous work that I put in since I used to be 13 years previous, it is all paying off. So it is actually cool to expertise all of the issues that I am experiencing.
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